Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty Episode 17

Career changes

Now that suspect has finally had some rest, XiJun draws his memories to see what clues come out. Even the drawings show disjointed thought and it’s still difficult to extrapolate fact from fiction. Lu noticed the meal guy wanted to say something and has a chat with him. And before checking with suspect he goes in and tries to flatten the guy. The lunch server has implied he is gay and that wife had discovered the two men flirting. Lu is an absolute genius in warfare. He evaluates on the fly what needs to be done and makes direct thorough progress in attacks almost every time. He is invaluable for military strategy, but I hate his black white line in investigation. He cannot color outside the lines and he goes with the shortest distance a to b rather than what is the route that leads to perpetrators. Once his mind is made up, he fits evidence to his thinking rather than let the evidence tell him what happened. This trait annoys the crap out of me as he bulldogs his way through in a scorched earth righteous pattern. Su is more sly and subject to error. However, he evaluates the evidence to see where it goes and actually tries to assume innocent until proven guilty. He is slowly bit by bit chipping away at Lu’s sledge hammer approach to things. Lu is a master with sword and spear but he has no clue how to hold a scalpel for investigating yet. Fei is the surprise helper. He works well with both of him and his abilities complements theirs. He helps Su with his medical knowledge and he has a great throwing arm to get Lu the weapons he needs. The meal guy is indeed the thief from a decade ago. He was the builder of the temple and he became the caretaker there. He was content until a couple scholars moved in and provided him a library. He educated himself and was now going to try the exam to get into the ministry himself. Lu was the one to figure out his identity. The needle trick with the pheasants gave him away. Now to find out what part he had in the murders if any. He will at least have a lot of missing details.

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